Worse is Better is Worse
In June 1991, AI Expert published a paper by my friend Richard Gabriel entitled “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big.” One of the nice things about the article—really the only nice thing—was that it was an attention-grabber. I hate to say it, but Richard was dangerously wrong to publish that paper. Here is the story. In the Spring of 1989,
.. Ninth, there has never been a true, important worse-is-better/the-right-thing faceoff, and so no one can point to an actual example of the theory that one has greater survival characteristics than the other